Apple has issued Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 3.13, adding compatibility for six extra cameras, allowing their Raw files to be opened by software on the Mac, including Aperture and iPhoto. The latest update brings support for the Canon EOS-1D X, Nikon D800E, Nikon D3200, Olympus OM-D E-M5, Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF5 and Sony SLT-A57. The update means Apple is the first major software maker to support some of these models.

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Apple offers support for the E-M5 before it is even readily available. That is good news for Apple. Or bad news for Olympus who seem to be waiting for the competition to catch up before ramping up production of their hottest product in years...

I am still astonished by people who - after years of information about how RAW format is achieved! - ask Apple to hurry up issuing new updates of its own RAW format interpreter. These people are completely ignoring the fact that camera makers don't give almost anything about the format they use, or, better, are so seriously close-minded about giving "industrial" infos about that, thus making Apple (and other developers) unable to do what people ask for!I am only sad that after several years, I cannot have my Panny FZ-18 RAWs clearly viewable in Aperture, but I do know that it is mostly a Panny issue, not Apple's!Another kind of issue is why so frequently Adobe Camera RAW has the ability to do what Aperture cannot?Is Adobe preferable as a "super partes" partner than Apple? Someone here who can explain that once for all?

Raw converters are set up to deal with Bayer colour-filter array cameras. Once you step away from that, it creates a lot more work. Expecting software makers to provide support as quickly as they usually do is not realistic.

Quote:>If you happen to live anywhere a lab where people develop software for decoding raw images hang out, you've probably been hearing a whole lot of swearing and cursing recently. You've probably also been hearing a lot of jokes with punchlines about "there's a reason why Fuji is a four letter word starting with f". Here's why......Finally, Fuji sprang the X-Pro1 on the market without providing pre-launch information (or indeed post-launch information!) to raw developers."

Reprehensible in fact that Fuji et al do not release the relevant information to software makers months ahead of camera release (NDA if ned be).Imagine a new Toyota no one could service because the parts were not available until 12 months after the car launch!Equally reprehensible that there is no TIFF option in the XP1 so that at least you could shoot ultra large high quality files almost any software would open whilst people worked out RAW.